El Dorado 12

I got this on the recommendation of my friend Assaf after attending the rum club meeting mentioned in my last post. It was the first ‘proper’ rum I’d ever bought and I’ve really been enjoying it. It’s just so different from the basic stuff most bars carry.

This beautiful thing is Demerara rum, from Guyana. Once just about every sugar plantation in the area produced its own rum but now the only remaining distiller in the region is Demerara Distillers, the producers of El Dorado. It’s a blend of column and pot still rums matured for at least 12 years in oak (ex-bourbon as far as I understand).